4. FIXED

Due to the fact they weren't able to exploit the tragedy at Benghazi for partisan political purposes during the presidential election they're pissed that President Obama won the election and that the Democrats gained seats. It is that simple.

September 17, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana'a, Yemen
Militants dressed as policemen attacked the embassy with RPGs, rifles, grenades and car bombs. Six Yemeni soldiers and seven civilians were killed. Sixteen more were injured.

30. Yeah, but Bush didn't try to cover it up.

If Romney can resign retroactively, why can't they retroactively create a coverup to hang on the Democrats?

What they're really pissed about, besides Obama's re-election, is that there have been no legitimate scandals (which I guess are sorta like legitimate rape), so they have to come up with non-starters like Solyndra and apology tours and bowing to foreign leaders and suchlike to keep the droolers fired up.

When your whole political strategy depends on keeping the sheep enraged, you gotta keep coming up with things to enrage them. Fortunately for the demagogues, the sheep are more interested in being enraged than they are in whether or not the rage stimuli make any sense.

Another way of looking at it is that the Dittoheads get addicted to the natural body chemicals produced by chronic anger, so Rushbo has to keep the fixes coming.

8. they know there's nothing there

but they also know that if they keep insisting that it is a scandal, it will become one, just because they keep saying that it is. There is absolutely nothing there. There was a CIA operation and by definition such operations are not transparent. Just like a murder investigation, you don't tell the public everything it would just serve to tip-off the perps that you are trying to catch. The repugnants got nothing but they know the public will eventually fall for it if they keep it up. WhiteWater was also nothing but they kept talking about it until people started to believe them.

11. They are pissed off that they can't paint the president as "weak" on foreign policy

They think it should be *their* strength. They were grasping at straws before the election to try to make Obama look like Carter and that's the best they could do. Now they are sticking with it because the only legitimate things to criticize the president on in regard to foreign policy are things that they want to do, too, only worse.

15. It is the only issue that keeps them glued to faux for the moment

16. National Security Was Their Last Issue...

and the killing of Bin Laden and the fall of Qaddafi have taken that from them too. This is a tantrum designed to try and show that President Obama's administration is not the force in national security that the facts say it is. Combine this with the electoral butt kicking and their continuing desire to just be disruptive and obstructionist and its the perfect combination to set them off.

The facts just aren't lining up for them however. I hope they just keep riding this strategy off into oblivion.

18. There's a black man in the White House. n/t

19. It was a CIA operation gone sour.

The words crafted by the CIA were designed to discredit whoever uttered them. Obama did not follow the script especially by uttering the word terrorist and giving the discredited words to a surrogate. They are equally pissed that Hillary Clinton did not fall for this ruse knocking her out of 2016 by repeating what was nonsense "spontaneous demonstration" and not "an attack planned and executed by organized military".

37. Patreus's sweetie may have been right they were doing interogations of prisoners.

The Ambassador was off his reservation and those killed with him were military types "former Seal" who almost never are identified. Remember the former Seal was also a Medic. No disrespect intended for those who lost their lives in the field. Adding on the political talking points seems just an added bonus but Romney spouted off very quickly and I think blew it.

20. I think it's useful to remember

that Obama liberated Libya from it's dictator without spilling a drop of American troop's blood. The fact that we lost four people in the aftermath is of course very unfortunate but they knew the risks and they knew the level of security they had. They were there voluntarily serving their country. If Obama had liberated Libya the way bush and the repugnants would have, we would have lost, and would still be losing, thousands of young American troops.

22. They were hoping to make it an Iran Hostage like crisis - in importance, which could have

cost Obama the election. They were trying VERY HARD to make him into a one term president like Jimmy Carter.

They can't afford to let it go now because it would be obvious that's what they were trying to do.
Romney was smart enough to (mostly)drop it once he made a fool of himself during the debate (and started getting briefings)
McCain truly despises Obama and feels that he is without honor, especially after he didn't limit his campaign to federal funds during the 2008 election - so he will have a hard time dropping it too.

28. I think I finally figured it out

They didn't like the fact that Bin Laden's death helped Obama appear tough on terrorism during the election. So what they are now saying boils down to:

"Obama wanted us to believe Al Qaeda was eliminated, so he covered up the terrorist element of the Benghazi attack for political purposes."

In their mythology, Obama was campaigning on "every terrorist in the world is gone" or something.

Never mind the fact that in an emergent situation, it is unwise for the administration to release every detail to tip off suspects being pursued and monitored - their entire bullshit point is that if word got out that any terrorists still exist on the planet, then it means "Obama was campaigning on a lie."

It is such an infantile piece of bullshit, that it is not worth harming brain cells to the extent required to even figure out wtf they are excited about. They are trying to sell the line that the Benghazi story was manipulated for domestic political purposes.

38. They want to attack Iran. They are pissed at Obama for his "soft footprint" foreing policy because

there is no need for as large a military or as many military contractors and hardware manufacturers. John McCain said yesterday that Benghazi was a consequence of the presidents "soft footprint policy".

41. They are angry and looking to attach it somewhere :)

42. One Republican I know is pissed off that an investigation into the real action may cloud

her screeching assumptions about lies and cover ups. I am amazed that they do NOT want a measured, accurate response, they want immediate and off the cuff sound bites so they can propagate the 'cover up' lies when bad information is initially released, and informed data is finally at hand.